Psychology and Pedagogy of Writing —— A Resume of the Researches and Experiments Bearing on the History and Pedagogy of Writing

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ISBN: 9781330448502 出版年：2016 页码：129 Mary E Thompson Forgotten Books

The art of writing is as old as civilization itself; it is thought probable that in North Babylonia the pictograph stage had long been passed eight thousand years ago. We are told that seven thousand years ago in Egypt, Babylonia and Crete both reading and writing were already of hoary antiquity. The written word has always been of mysterious significance to the savage. Among such people, the person who could use symbols for communication was next to the gods; hence written language ministered to forms of wor ship and remained in the hands of the church. In this way the currency of civilization and learning became written language; consequently the reverenced part of education has not been the sciences as first hand studies of reality.